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Old 03-04-2008, 08:12 AM
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I think you have two solutions there. I imagine you can make the complete font in Illy form the characters you already have in both uppercase and lowercase? That would be good enough for display usage, particularly as it looks good with no letterspacing.

There are various font programs I've looked into, Fontographer used to be the top on, but for a while they stopped making it, so god knows now. It would be much like illy to draw these shapes as they are simple geometrics, as opposed to the level of accuracy for say a normal sans. That's why the free fonts on the net are often not good for work, as they can be badly drawn with weird spacing.

I guess it depends if you eventually want to market them as a free/paid typeface, or just keep it for you usage.
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